Roslyn Packer Theatre, STC, SydneyNeil Armfield's inventive, evocative and cinematic adaptation exudes a painful political resonance that never feels didacticAt the heart of The Secret River…
New Vic, Newcastle-under-LymeIt's full-scale farce with flat caps as Barrie Rutter takes on Shakespeare's shambling antihero for a third time with Northern BroadsidesNot even Shakespeare see…
In My Stories, Your Emails, Ursula Martinez has recieved criticism for using ostensibly private correspondance for a public show. Does she really need to ask permission?From behind a lectern…
Masai Graham, from West Bromwich, wins this year's UK pun championships at Hansom Hall in Leicester on Monday. He battled against seven opponents over four rounds, during which they delivere…
The oversharing cabaret star is back with a new solo show that takes in online privacy, feminism, anal hygiene " and onstage masonryUrsula Martinez has paraded her nudist parents on stage, i…
Finborough theatre, LondonA father and son face up to social change in Britain's countryside in an uneven drama boasting two terrific performancesThere's plenty to commend in Daniel Foxsmith…
Gate, LondonNina Segal turns a baby's nursery into an arena where an anxious couple explore private nightmares and global catastrophesIn Sarah Kane's Blasted, a Leeds hotel room opens up to …
Dancer with 'an ethereal quality' who helped establish classical ballet in the USIn the late 1930s and early 40s, five remarkably gifted ballerinas began their professional careers in the US…
There were plenty of laughs at the quick-fire punning contest hosted by Lee Nelson, but the maligned art of wordplay deserves more of a rap-battle format"Some comedians don't take puns serio…
Getting hung up trying to decipher meaning is not always the most helpful way to look at theatre " you need to use your heart and guts as well as your head"What's it all about?" cried an ang…
Ensemble Theatre, KirribilliWith unlikeable characters, dated references and depressingly underwritten female roles, the satire of Williamson's latest work truly misses its markThere's a per…
The director reveals he is a 'great fan' of the US standup comic. Meanwhile, Geri Halliwell looks set to star in her own TV comedy show and London's Glee Club isn't happyWoody Allen has been…
In Russia, whether in formal post-show discussions or in dinner-table conversations, the first question one is often asked is: "What masters did you study under?" It has been my good fortune…
Leicester Square theatre, LondonOutlandish non sequiturs stack up as the wild-eyed, broad-grinned Law works the myth of his own zaninessIt's Tony Law's ambition, he tells us, to make a solid…
Citizens, GlasgowA cast led by Chris Gascoyne and David Neilson deliver Samuel Beckett's apocalyptic play with nihilistic forceCould it have been intentional that Chris Gascoyne's Clov so cl…
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonAnger flares convincingly in Michael Longhurst's production, but the confines of the Globe's Jacobean space strain the comedyWith Constellations, a revival of …
US drag artist Taylor Mac, an empathy museum and a bedtime story are all part of the lineup for the 21st Lift. What can a programme dominated by work from other countries tell us about ourse…
Andrew Davies set to follow success of Tolstoy drama with adaptation for BBC of French Revolution musicalWar and Peace bowed out with 5.7 million viewers on Sunday as it was revealed that sc…
Jim Cartwright's sequel to Two premieres in Bolton, Mike Bartlett's Cock is revived in Glasgow and Simon McBurney's hallucinatory The Encounter is at the Barbican, LondonThe always intriguin…
The acclaimed choreographer explains the origins of Strapless " his new ballet about Madame X, the It Girl of 19th-century Paris who was destroyed by a daring portrait When I moved to New Yo…
Sandra Smith, the head of the RSC's wigs and makeup department, on how to stage Shakespeare's grisliest play " and how to get the stains outThe first thing you think when you're asked to wor…
Young Vic, LondonThe director's new work based on the ancient text is one of aesthetic beauty and great skill, if less convincing as a parable of our times Three decades ago, Peter Brook's p…
One of the greatest French opera singers of her generation who was admired for her interpretations of PoulencDenise Duval, who has died aged 94, was one of the greatest French singers of the…
Last week Benjamin Millepied resigned as head of dance at the prestigious Paris Opera Ballet, criticising the company's rigid ways. Luke Jennings, who spoke to the choreographer twice in rec…
Barbican, London Yoann Bourgeois's circus-influenced piece has a dramatic tilting stage and his dancers in a spinYoann Bourgeois is a French choreographer based in Grenoble. He came to dance…